STANDS KICK ASS.....BUT IT HURTS SO BAD
so yeah, yesterday was all-city practice. i, once again, got to do stands. if you dont know what stands are, the band stands in the stands as a whole after every section has had time to practice by themselves in "Sectionals" (keyword in that word is "section"), then they all venture on to a section in the stands in the stadium and play all the songs while marching in place. Drum majors will stand on the field and direct the band for there. there is usually 2 to 6 people doing so. we go through all songs memorized and a couple we dont, just to test. and so i did all that....called songs...sort of....go up and down the "band" even tho there no band there cuz they're in the stands....i dont run up the stairs.....that would suck.
Anyways, so now for the negitive part of our subject. before stands, i was going around the field with Alex Wren, the best drum major last year and rookie staff drum major this year. (He has the best high step and parallel legs when marching, MY GOD!!!, the guy's a freak), anyways so yeah i just so happened to mark time right next to Chloe's group of drummers practicing "Birdland." I tried as hard as i could not to look at her as she was playing. Tim was directing the drummers and he cut them off, but chloe kept playing after the cut off cuz she was staring at me. thats good one way and bad another. she knows her music and can play it without thinking but its not good when she's not paying attention. then i could totally hear her say sorry and Tim was like...."Just don't look at him." she says, "But it's hard not too!!!"
Then after about another 15 minutes, my hands are like Niagra Falls full of sweat and then my baton starts to slip away. it continued to go on through stands and i had trouble doing spins and twirls. IT SUCKED, plus my right arm was dead tired and i also got a bruse..or a pride mark as drum majors call it...on my right hip bone area cuz i hit my baton on my hip bone at the begining of practice. so yeah...lots of bad things...but thats cool..no worries..im good....and i get to do it all over tonite!!!!....YES!!!....I LOVE IT!!!
Anyways, so now for the negitive part of our subject. before stands, i was going around the field with Alex Wren, the best drum major last year and rookie staff drum major this year. (He has the best high step and parallel legs when marching, MY GOD!!!, the guy's a freak), anyways so yeah i just so happened to mark time right next to Chloe's group of drummers practicing "Birdland." I tried as hard as i could not to look at her as she was playing. Tim was directing the drummers and he cut them off, but chloe kept playing after the cut off cuz she was staring at me. thats good one way and bad another. she knows her music and can play it without thinking but its not good when she's not paying attention. then i could totally hear her say sorry and Tim was like...."Just don't look at him." she says, "But it's hard not too!!!"
Then after about another 15 minutes, my hands are like Niagra Falls full of sweat and then my baton starts to slip away. it continued to go on through stands and i had trouble doing spins and twirls. IT SUCKED, plus my right arm was dead tired and i also got a bruse..or a pride mark as drum majors call it...on my right hip bone area cuz i hit my baton on my hip bone at the begining of practice. so yeah...lots of bad things...but thats cool..no worries..im good....and i get to do it all over tonite!!!!....YES!!!....I LOVE IT!!!